Category: Food safety
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Belgian egg recalls have widened into a cross-border safety case. The outbreak linked to Laerco BV has put poultry-house sampling, egg traceability, heat treatment, and recall systems back under scrutiny across European food production.
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Clean-label reformulation is becoming a technical systems challenge. Prosur has launched a natural ingredient toolbox covering additive removal, fermentation, sweetening, and cocoa alternatives for food and beverage manufacturers.
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Sanitation technology is moving beyond chemical-intensive cleaning regimes at scale. Element Six and Oxi-Tech are partnering to accelerate synthetic-diamond-enabled disinfection for dairy, food production, and other industrial users.
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Compostable packaging needs clearer infrastructure and policy support. The US Plastics Pact is calling for harmonised standards, labelling, certification, and investment to scale compostable systems responsibly.
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Allergen control remains a live manufacturing risk. Filippo Berio UK has recalled Hot Chilli Pesto after fish was not declared on the product label.
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Mineral water processing is facing sharper regulatory scrutiny in France. Raids at Perrier-linked sites have put treatment controls, natural mineral water definitions, and bottled water compliance under renewed pressure.
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ReposiTrak has added more snack suppliers to its traceability network. The expansion extends supplier-to-distribution centre-to-store data exchange across nuts, olives, trail mixes, dried fruit snacks, and other products as traceability becomes a routine operating requirement.
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Digital CIP systems are targeting water waste in food plants. Ecolab’s platform uses continuous monitoring and AI-supported recommendations to improve sanitation efficiency, uptime, compliance evidence, and resource control.
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UK agencies are tightening scrutiny of honey authenticity testing databases. The framework aims to strengthen enforcement confidence as manufacturers, packers, and ingredient buyers face persistent fraud risk.
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Quadram research questions farming system influence on retail AMR exposure. The findings shift attention toward processing, handling, chilled-chain control, and microbiome surveillance across meat and leafy green supply chains.